Tuning styles with octaves

[Nichols]

At 06:56 PM 6/14/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Well, that is a very good point.  Basically as the speaking length of the 
>string gets shorter you end up trying to center the aural "mud" around 
>where the fundamental should be.
>When tuning little pianos this becomes more of a debatable taste/art.  I 
>can think of a console I tuned that had some zinging higher partials that 
>stood out like a sore thumb, taming them left me with a galloping lower 
>partial combo--mud.  This probably is something that might benefit from 
>some judicious, read that "more experienced", voicing.  Comments?
>
>Andrew

Boom, Clang, Sizzle.... you wanna tame the sizzle, but not loose the clang. 
Sometimes all you need to do for the mid-to-treble on the wee beasties is 
wire brush the strike point...... every tuning.

Free and makes it easier to tune.

later,
Guy